Monday, August 7, 2017

US May Strike “ISIS” in the Philippines. China/Philippines Joint Resource Exploration.

US May Strike “ISIS” in the Philippines. Before we get to the very interesting news regarding China/ Philippines Joint South China Sea Development we'll read the news regarding the decision making for the desired attack on the Philippines that may take place as early as tomorrow. And we'll read about the dredging and land creation China & the Philippines have embarked on.

The Pentagon is considering a plan that allows the U.S. military to
conduct airstrikes on ISIS in the Philippines, two defense officials
told NBC News.

The authority to strike ISIS targets as part
of collective self-defense could be granted as part of an official
military operation that may be named as early as Tuesday, said the
officials. The strikes would likely be conducted by armed drones.

There is a small U.S. military presence on the ground supporting the counter-ISIS fight, called Joint Special Operations Task Force Trident.

If approved, the U.S. military would be able to conduct strikes against
ISIS targets in the Philippines that could be a threat to allies in the
region, which would includethe Philippine forces battling ISIS on the
ground in the country's southern islands.

Last month, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs endorsed the idea
of naming the mission in the Philippines, saying that naming it would
provide more funding.

Speaking/naming the mission into reality- Oh the implications of that, on so many levels.

"In every case where we see the resurgence of terror networks," said
Gen. Paul Selva in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee,
"particularly in the fragile areas of the southern Philippines, I think
it's worth considering whether or not we reinstate a named operation,
not only to provide for the resources that are required, but to give the
Pacific Command commander and the field commanders in the Philippines
the kinds of authorities they need to work with indigenous Philippine
forces to actually help them be successful in that battle space."

Naming the mission will then make it real, official and authoritative in your mind.....

Imagine the damage to the ocean ecosystem when this type of action is undertaken? Unbelievable. Al Gore should train activists and make a movie about this, rather then continue to work on behalf of big oil as they profit/benefit from the carbon agenda- oh never mind.. that would be real environmental concern.

China and the Philippines were planning to build four artificial islands. The four new artificial islands appear to be planned around Davao.
They will be developed for mixed-use, business and residential purposes
along the coastline under a P39-billion reclamation project that city
government plans to undertake with a major private developer.The joint venture agreement was signed by the city government and Mega Harbour Port and Development Inc. last month.“There will be no relocation because President Duterte does not want
to remove the people in the area,” said Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang,
chair of the city council’s committee on finance and ways and means.

A Chinese state-owned company said to have been involved in Beijing’s
island-building in the South China Sea signed a deal to construct
islands in a mega project in Davao. CCCC Dredging will create four artificial islands totalling 208
hectares of reclaimed land in Davao, the port city on the southern
island of Mindanao where Duterte was mayor.

The rates at which land is reclaimed and the technology involved is amazing.

Beijing’s South China Sea land reclamation work has reportedly resulted in 2,900 acres
of land reclaimed over a period of roughly 20 months, from early 2014
to August 2015. Here, perspective is important: of the other countries
to reclaim land in the South China Sea, Vietnam has reclaimed 80 acres,
Malaysia has reclaimed 70, the Philippines has reclaimed 14 and Taiwan
has reclaimed approximately eight over various length of time. China has
managed to create more than 17 times more land in 20 months than all of
the other claimants combined over the past 40 years, accounting for 95
percent of all artificial land in the Spratlys.

The main driving force of China’s reclamation has been a fleet of new
dredgers, including the technologically advanced self-propelled
cutter-suction dredger (CSD) Tianjing, which is capable of dredging and
reclaiming land at a rate of 4,500 cubic meters an hour. These dredgers
simply did not exist 15 years ago, yet now China can deploy dozens of
them simultaneously in the South China Sea.

China’s largest accomplishment in dredge-building came in 2010, with
the launching of Tianjing, China’s first self-propelled CSD, and also
Asia’s largest self-propelled CSD and the world’s third largest.

This 120-meter-long ship can dredge up to 4,500 m3/h, more than
100,000 m3 of material a day, at a maximum depth of 30 meters, and
travel at speeds of up to 12 knots. Tianjing also boasts a total
installed power of 25,760 kilowatts. However, while the large CSD
certainly represents a Chinese technological breakthrough, it was not
solely the product of Chinese design, but rather the cooperative efforts
of SJTU and Vosta LMG, a German company that also built the Ursa, a 115
meter-long self-propelled CSD

As I have noted before, the idea of jointly exploring and exploiting
resources is not new to the Sino-Philippine relationship (See: “The Danger of Duterte’s South China Sea Approach”).
Indeed, Chinese interlocutors are fond of reminding observers that
former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping had wisely proposed this formulation
to the Philippine government as early as the 1980s, including during a
meeting with then-Philippine President Corazon Aquino back in 1988.There is also no surprise as to why the idea of China-Philippines
joint development continues to be periodically resurrected despite the
challenges it has confronted, including under the current Duterte
government. Simply put, it does offer immediate opportunities that can
be seized for both sides.

For the Philippines, it would finally give it a way to secure its energy
needs. These needs are especially dire as the Malampaya gas field –
which supplies nearly a third of the electricity demand of Luzon, the
country’s largest island – will run out in a decade or so,and Manila
has been unable to pursue new sources such as in Reed Bank (Recto Bank)
unilaterally due to Chinese opposition. Though Duterte has a rather
shaky relationship with the truth, his suggestion that Chinese President
Xi Jinping had threatened war if the Philippines exploited resources
unilaterally tracks with official Chinese rhetoric, which Wang Yi
repeated this week.

More broadly, as part of the warming of Sino-Philippine ties underway
since Duterte came to office, the Duterte government hopes it could
also lead to more Chinese investments into the Philippines to boost the
economy, whether these be in a bilateral form or as part of wider
initiatives like the much-ballyhooed Belt and Road Initiative (See: “The Real Trouble With China’s Belt and Road”).

For China, in addition to capitalizing on the dramatic turnaround in
its ties with a U.S. treaty ally, it also offers a way for Beijing to
maintain its uncompromising stance that it still has sovereignty over
most of the South China Sea at other claimants’ expense while also
securing a partner as well as a market for resource exploitation.

More generally, in China’s eyes, it would also add some credence to the
idea – or, as I’ve termed it, the illusion – that there is indeed a
cooling down period at play in the South China Sea, which allows Beijing
greater room to restrict what other claimants, non-claimants, and other
extraregional actors do to counteract its own moves in the South China
Sea.

But the trouble with China-Philippines joint development in the South
China Sea is not that these immediate opportunities do not exist for
these respective parties. Rather, it is that these immediate
opportunities mask, and are outweighed by, the massive risks related to
the past, current context, and near future, and the Duterte government
has not done near enough to prove otherwise.

Put simply the opportunities for China/ Philippines do exist for one another, but, the reward may not be worth the risks.. Which may explain the sudden appearance of ISIS along with the US wanting to bomb the Philippines. That's falls into the risk category.

All article can and should be read at the links provided. Lots more information there then posted here.

Can't say for certain what Duterte understands..I would expect he does understand that thoughHowever, how long has the philippines been occupied.And that type of planning to keep them down, keeps them dependent on the US.

I guess that's why the US isn't so fussy on the idea of Philippines having some energy independence?

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